Beschreibung:
This book draws on a multi-method study of film and television narratives of global criminal networks to explore the links between audiovisual media, criminal networks and global audiences in the age of digital content distribution.
Introduction: cartel media 1. How Touch of Evil set the rules for Hollywood cartel cinema 2. Cartel westerns: the new frontier (South of the border) 3. From Weeds to Ozark: the suburbs, threatened 4. Queen of the South: doing linguistic mish-mash and "Mexican face" 5. Walter White and the use of Brown bodies in Breaking Bad 6. The Sicario saga and chromatic othering 7. Netflix's Narcos: cartel media in the age of digital distribution 8. "El Chapo" gets the Netflix treatment: theorising cartel mythologies Postscript: cartel media beyond Hollywood